Product Engineering

Presenters Alexander Gaudreault Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Argo Rollouts 1.9 GA: A Plugin-Powered Leap Towards Unrivaled Stability and Flexibility! 🚀 Hello, fellow Kubernetes enthusiasts and deployment wizards! Today, we’re diving into some incredibly exciting news from the world of progressive delivery. Alexander Gaudreault just pulled back the curtain on the General Availability (GA) release of Argo Rollouts 1.9, and trust us, this isn’t just another update – it’s a testament to community power and a clear vision for the future of stable, flexible deployments! ...

Presenters Jesse Suen Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Unlocking Secure Software Promotion: Kargo’s Game-Changing Custom Steps! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered what happens before your perfectly synced Kubernetes cluster gets an update? We all love Argo CD for its brilliant GitOps deployment capabilities, keeping our clusters continuously reconciled from Git. But here’s the million-dollar question: what controls what’s allowed into Git in the first place? Jesse Suen, co-founder and CTO of Acuity and co-creator of the Argo and Kargo projects, recently shone a spotlight on this crucial gap. He revealed how Kargo is evolving promotion beyond simple image tag updates, transforming it into a robust enforcement boundary. Get ready to rethink how your software moves! ...

Presenters Isitha Subasinghe Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Argo Workflows 4.0: A Quantum Leap in Workflow Automation! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Isitha Subasinghe, a Senior Software Engineer at Pipet, is here to give us the inside scoop on the latest advancements in Argo Workflows. Get ready to be excited because Argo Workflows 4.0 isn’t just an update; it’s a revolution in how we handle complex workflows! A Community Driven Powerhouse 💪 The Argo Workflows community is absolutely thriving! In the last quarter alone, they welcomed 50 new contributors and a new reviewer, Eduardo – congratulations, Eduardo! This influx of talent fueled the monumental release of Argo Workflows 4.0, boasting an incredible 24 new features, 122 fixes, and contributions from 73 individuals, with a whopping 37 of them being brand new to the project. Talk about explosive growth! 💥 ...

Presenters Ram Mohan Rao Chukka Shibi Ramachandran Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Beyond Basic GitOps: Adding Intelligence to Argo CD with AI 🧠✨ Ever had a production incident that made you question your automation? We’ve all been there. Imagine this: a Friday afternoon, pager duty fires, and your payment service is down. The culprit? A well-intentioned SRE scaling replicas to handle a traffic spike. Argo CD, doing exactly what it’s told, detects this “configuration drift” and reverts the changes, bringing your application crashing down. 💥 This is the scenario Shibi Ramachandran (Senior Software Engineer at ING) and Ram Mohan Rao Chukka (Senior Software Engineer at JFrog) explored at Argo Con, diving deep into how to inject intelligence into GitOps and Argo CD. ...

Presenters Zhuang Zhang Ryan Wu Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Beyond Single Clusters: Mastering Multi-Cluster Releases with Progressive Delivery 🚀 Are you tired of the release day jitters, especially when you’re juggling multiple Kubernetes clusters? You’re not alone! As Ryan Wu from TIS Cloud Music and Zhuang Zhang from Huawei shared, Kubernetes deployments quickly evolve from a “cluster problem” to a “coordination problem.” This means orchestrating releases across regions, clusters, and environments becomes the real challenge. ...